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| Brand: | Belkin |
| Item Height : | 17 centimetres |
| Item Width: | 5 centimetres |
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| Wattage: | 20 watts |
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Belkin's Home Base allows anyone on your network to wirelessly share external hard drives, printers, or other devices - wherever and whenever.
Product Description
Belkin Home Base - Device server - Ethernet, USB, Fast Ethernet - 802.11b/g/n (d
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
I wanted to be able to share a printer across my home network, any sharing of external hard drives/flash drives a bonus. This the Belkin does fine. The manual on the enclosed set up disc does say it may not work with multi function/all in one printers but as mine is a dedicated printer it works fine if slightly slower than if it was plugged into the USB port of one computer. Most multi function printers nowadays come with their own dedicated wifi anyway. The file sharing of USB devices does work but be aware the transfer speeds are very slow, fine for occasional use.
I had some problems with the initial set up which nearly made me send the unit back. The problem was I initially set it up to connect to my router via the ethernet cable and then changed my mind so ran the set up again to connect by wireless. The wireless connection was fine and easy but there was no power to the USB ports, the USB power lights did not come on when anything was plugged into them and the device could not see them. Rang Belkin support (local call rates to India) where on a very poor phone line was advised to uninstall the software then reinstall. I did this to no effect so decided to send the unit back but set the unit back to factory default so my router log in details were not in the unit. At my wife's suggestion I plugged in a flash drive and there was power to the USB port! So I started from scratch and set up the unit again to work by wireless connection to the router and yes everything worked! Lesson learned the hard way: you can connect to the router either by ethernet cable or wireless (not both as they have the same MAC address) so make your mind up first, if you do change your mind later reset the unit to factory default and start from scratch.
Couple more things, do make sure that the printer driver is installed first, long story but do it! Last thing and in answer to a query I had before ordering, it works fine with Windows 7 in both 32 bit and 64 bit.
Anyway all now seems fine, fingers crossed!
27/11/2010. Follow up: The USB ports have stopped working again with no input from me. Tried factory reset as before but no joy, the unit is now useless so reliability is a real issue.
Update 16/12/2010 Finally, after a protracted effort with Belkin Support which is hard work and frustrating, I have received a replacement unit under warranty which so far is working as it should. Fingers again crossed, I am going to up the star rating to 3* because I like the Home Hub for what it does but there is a question mark over reliability.
I had some problems with the initial set up which nearly made me send the unit back. The problem was I initially set it up to connect to my router via the ethernet cable and then changed my mind so ran the set up again to connect by wireless. The wireless connection was fine and easy but there was no power to the USB ports, the USB power lights did not come on when anything was plugged into them and the device could not see them. Rang Belkin support (local call rates to India) where on a very poor phone line was advised to uninstall the software then reinstall. I did this to no effect so decided to send the unit back but set the unit back to factory default so my router log in details were not in the unit. At my wife's suggestion I plugged in a flash drive and there was power to the USB port! So I started from scratch and set up the unit again to work by wireless connection to the router and yes everything worked! Lesson learned the hard way: you can connect to the router either by ethernet cable or wireless (not both as they have the same MAC address) so make your mind up first, if you do change your mind later reset the unit to factory default and start from scratch.
Couple more things, do make sure that the printer driver is installed first, long story but do it! Last thing and in answer to a query I had before ordering, it works fine with Windows 7 in both 32 bit and 64 bit.
Anyway all now seems fine, fingers crossed!
27/11/2010. Follow up: The USB ports have stopped working again with no input from me. Tried factory reset as before but no joy, the unit is now useless so reliability is a real issue.
Update 16/12/2010 Finally, after a protracted effort with Belkin Support which is hard work and frustrating, I have received a replacement unit under warranty which so far is working as it should. Fingers again crossed, I am going to up the star rating to 3* because I like the Home Hub for what it does but there is a question mark over reliability.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I wanted a wireless USB hub to connect my laser printer into my network. This seemed the most flexible device if a lttle costly. Following the instructions for setup as a wireless hub was very straightforward - took just a few minutes, and worked first time. I plugged a memory stick in as an initial test and it almost instantly connected, and continues to work fine - I'm actually quite impressed with the data transmission rate as well, with no noticeable delays on fairly small files - e.g. loading a high quality digital picture. Then I came to try connecting the laser printer. This was a frustrating process. It recognised the printer almost immediately and asked if I wanted to load the printer driver. I didn't really since it was already loaded, but did so anyway. However, after this, it still failed to connect to the printer. I tried removing the printer driver completely and reinstalling. No joy. I tried, as was suggested in the manual (on CD), altering the settings on my firewall, except my firewall is not one of those used as examples, and so I again failed. At this point, about to give up, I disabled my firewall completely, and achieved a connection with the printer almost instantly. I have subsequently discovered that I can re-enable the firewall and the connection to the print remains until I turn off, or the computer goes into sleep mode. So to use the printer, I have to first disable my firewall for a few seconds, connect ot the printer, and then re-enable the firewall. Slightly messy but only takes a few seconds and works every time.
Other reviews have commented on the unreliablity of the wireless connection, but I have no difficulties with this. The Home Server control program enables you to monitor system status including wireless signal strength. I have my wireless router in one upstairs corner of the house, and the Home server in the diagonally opposite corner of the house, some 15m away with 2 partition walls in between - the signal remains rock solid at 3 bars (out of 5). (I have a Linksys WAG160N router - an excellent product with good signal strength.)
So after my initial frustrations I am well pleased with the Home Server. It does exactly what I wanted it for. I haven't used its more esoteric features related to picture sharing and backup, whcih seem somewhat unnecessary features to me.
Other reviews have commented on the unreliablity of the wireless connection, but I have no difficulties with this. The Home Server control program enables you to monitor system status including wireless signal strength. I have my wireless router in one upstairs corner of the house, and the Home server in the diagonally opposite corner of the house, some 15m away with 2 partition walls in between - the signal remains rock solid at 3 bars (out of 5). (I have a Linksys WAG160N router - an excellent product with good signal strength.)
So after my initial frustrations I am well pleased with the Home Server. It does exactly what I wanted it for. I haven't used its more esoteric features related to picture sharing and backup, whcih seem somewhat unnecessary features to me.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
I bought this to provide local network storage using an old USB hard disk and I also wanted to provide network access to a USB printer, a Canon MP610 without having to have the machine the printer is connected to left on permanently.
The printer connection is very unreliable though and once it loses connectivity there appears to be no solution other than to reboot everything as the Home Base spews out 'Cannot connect to Printer' messages.
The hard disk connection is fine and suits my purposes although many new routers are coming with USB input which will meet the same requirement.
The Local Backup facilities and Picture Sharing are half-hearted add-ons that I doubt anyone will use seriously.
I have not tried to use the wireless (or WPS) connectivity
The printer connection is very unreliable though and once it loses connectivity there appears to be no solution other than to reboot everything as the Home Base spews out 'Cannot connect to Printer' messages.
The hard disk connection is fine and suits my purposes although many new routers are coming with USB input which will meet the same requirement.
The Local Backup facilities and Picture Sharing are half-hearted add-ons that I doubt anyone will use seriously.
I have not tried to use the wireless (or WPS) connectivity
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Nice bit of kit...
I had read reviews on the net about this being tricky to set up. It isn't! My Belkin worked out of the box with no problems at all. Read more
Published 1 day ago by BoC
Belkin Homebase ... somewhat slow !!
Setting it up was quite easy and straight forward for a moderately technical person. On first installation, the software only worked with the unit wired to the router. Read more
Published 4 months ago by starfield
Too much hassle
I bought this item so that one printer could be shared between computers without switching one of them on first. Read more
Published 5 months ago by chrisn7
Ok for limited reliability printer support - media streaming or HDD...
Just a few observations as I have had this for over a year now:
-first unit I diagnosed an issue with the power supply on delivery, and after arguing with Belkin's... Read more
-first unit I diagnosed an issue with the power supply on delivery, and after arguing with Belkin's... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. David Perry
Great buy
I used to have a networked Belkin USB hub sat next to my router connected by Ethernet but when I moved house, I needed to move my router away from the printer and backup drive, so... Read more
Published 7 months ago by James9325
Belkin Printer Hub
Fast delivery, very good price, cheaper than PC World.
Hub self installed first time and I now have two printers and external hard-drive availble for all. Read more
Hub self installed first time and I now have two printers and external hard-drive availble for all. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Ivor
Very pleased
Excellent product, I am using it to connect 2 HP printers and a USB hard drive. I had problems initially with the WIFI connection dropping out but I have repositioned it and it has... Read more
Published 11 months ago by S. Gibson
Slow performance
I have installed this device at home with my standard SKY wireless router and found that its performance is ok for Printer but not that good for External HDDs. Read more
Published 16 months ago by UV
Excellent product
Its a unique product that let you print or back up files from every pc of your home wirelessly. It works excellent and the setup is very easy
Published 17 months ago by manow
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